Button-fastener.



L. H. DAVIS.

BUTTON FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 21. ms.

1 ,29'1;432 Patented Jan. 14, 1919.

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BUTTON-FASTENER Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14. 1919.

Application filed March 27, 1918. Serial No. 224,978.

To all whom it may concern} Be it known that I, LYMAN H. DAVIS, acitizen of the United States of America, residing at 2722 S. Fourth St.,Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Button-Fasteners, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to button or stud fasteners, and its object is toprovide a novel and improved device of this kind designed moreparticularly for buttoning shirt fronts and dispensing with thenecessity of sewing the buttons on the inner plait of the shirt, andholding the shirt front more securely closed. The device is also soconstructed that it is not liable to loss by rolling to inaccessibleplaces if it should be accidentally dropped on the floor.

With the objects stated in view, the invention consists in a combinationand arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed, and inorder that the same may be better understood. reference is had to theaccompan ing drawing forming a part of this speci cation.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device, and Fig. 2is a side elevation thereof.

The device shown in Figs. 1 and 2 consists of a button head 5 carried bya resilient clasp which is so constructed that it may be slipped overthe edge of the inner plait of a. shirt so that the device is held inplace without being sewed or otherwise permanently connected to saidpart, and at the same time it can be easily applied or removed. The partto which the clasp is applied is indicated by the reference character 6in Fig. 2.

The clasp herebefore referred to is made of spring wire which is bent toform a front and back portion, these portions having a normal tendencyto come together so that when the part 6 is inserted therebetween it issecurely gripped. The two ends of the wire meet and from the meetingends they extend divergingl to form two spaced limbs 7 having rearwarbends at their outer ends, from which the two ends are given returnbends 8 connected at their extremities by a cross bar 9.

The button head has a rearwardly projecting shank 10 which is rigidlyconnected to the meeting ends of the two diverging le 7 which locatesthe button head a suitab e distance outward from the front member of theclasp and at the end of said member which is opposite the end which isjoined to the rear member, and hence when the device is in place on thepart 6, the button head is spaced the proper distance from the edgethereof for insertion into the button hole in the outer plait of theshirt.

The preferred embodiment of the invention has been shown, but it will beunderstood that changes and modifications can be made without adeparture from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimedhereinafter.

I claim:

A fastener comprising a clasp composed of front and rear resilientmembers having a normal tendency to come to ether, the front memberbeing composed o a pair of diverging limbs meeting at one end and havingrearward and return bends at their outer ends to form the rear member,with a cross bar connecting the extremities of said bends,

and a button head having a rearwardly projecting shank rigidly connectedto the meetlng ends of the aforesaid limbs.

11 testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

LYMAN H. DAVIS.

